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engadget has photos and a brief video of LG’s Windows Phone 7 Series device. Details are here . Points of interest: Slip out keyboard, small size, me like!
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Don’t miss out on the VBUG4THOUGHT spring conference. Booking is already open! http://www.vbug.co.uk/Events/April-2010/VBUG-4Thought-Spring-Conference-Birmingham.aspx Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, Warwicks CV35 0BJ With the imminent release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .Net framework 4, VBUG announces VBUG4Thought, a spring conference to help to celebrate and highlight these new products. This conference is ideal if you wish to learn about the new enhancements, features and capabilities...
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Todd Brix has published a new blog post talking about the current status of Windows Phone and some planned upgrades going forward. Its only been a year since Windows Phone marketplace was announced and 4 months since it has been up and running (where does time go?). Yet there are 1325 ISV registered on the marketplace and 1245 apps – unfortunately I’m part of that delta. I got myself registered but I haven’t been able to finish off my app idea to get it published :-(. There are some good improvements...
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I’m compelled to share with you my simple program for copying files into Windows Azure blob storage. Now you may already have this sussed – it isn’t that cutting edge – but when I searched for examples I found such a range of out dated Azure material, and no simple 101 solution that I had to pull this together. I did pull it from a webrole example I found somewhere (think is is the additional examples download) but I still had to add bits to make it work. So here is the single button windows form...
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If you want to get into the detail of Windows Phone 7 Series here are the top resources: Presspass demos from today's press conference Insight into our strategy: http://www.windowsphone7series.com/news/News2 Engadget’s Live Feed: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/15/windows-phone-7-series-hands-on-and-impressions/ Check here for the recording of the live press conference from MWC, screen shots, and the press release: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/windowsphone/Default.aspx Channel...
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All the detail including interactive demo is at http://www.windowsphone7series.com/ Looking so cool, the live twitter feed is positive about the UI :-) Using key Microsoft products and services to help deliver a compelling user experience; Windows Phone is built around integrated experience hubs, bringing together related content from the web, applications and services into a single view to simplify common tasks. There are six hubs in the Windows Phone 7 Series People: Bringing you and your...
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After the PDC last year I ended up with a couple of ZuneHDs. I gave one to my mate Charles Humphrey and look what his building with it! A raycasting engine. Remember Doom and game of the type, they used raycasting as a means of delivering exciting 3D games on platforms without 3D support. The ZuneHD has 2D but no 3D support in its XNA implementation – although the hardware has a GPU. Charles has done a fab job of building our an engine that performs well. I wired in some sensor support – but...
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It is really exciting to be so close to a product launch, but even more so when you anticipate a good product. The VS2010 team have really pulled out all the stops. Not just in feature implementations, but more importantly in listening. I don’t remember any product team being this available to take feedback. The team listened to the feedback regarding beta 2’s performance and changed release plans to ensure work could be done to improve things. This work didn’t happen in isolation, Jason Zander talks...
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One of my favourite features of Windows 7 is the new Sensor and Location API. So far I have been able to utilise commercial sensor boards and my own home brew Basic Stamp facilitated sensors. the one thing I haven’t been able to play with is the Location API. This is due to my aging GPS devices not having a Windows 7 driver. However, revisiting the topic today I have discovered a generic COM port redirection driver for GPS devices connected directly or via BlueTooth. This Windows 7 sensor driver...
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Unit testing is a software development methodology where the developer writes tests that validate a small portion of code. A unit test is usually composed of three ingredients: (1) data such as strings or integers, (2) a sequence of method calls that exercise the code under test and (3) assertions that verify the behaviour. int AddBroken( int x, int y) { if (x > 1000) x = 1000; // it’s too big! return x + y; } [TestMethod] public void AddOneTwo () { int z = AddBroken(1, 2); Assert.AreEqual(3,...
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As mentioned in previous posts , I have a variety of ‘out of hours’ dev work that keeps me busy and proud. The latest piece of work was the migration of the educational film site Filmsforlearning.org to use Windows Azure blob storage. Filmsforlearning is run by a community of UK teachers that see the making of films as a key technique to provide a compelling learning experience. As Confucius said: Tell me and I will forget Show me and I will remember Involve me and I will understand The site did...
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All titled: Windows Phone Application and Game Development http://live.visitmix.com/Sessions#/tags/WindowsPhone :-)
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A totally terrific blog post from the IE team. Internet Explorer 8 Officially Becomes World’s Most-Used Browser - Windows Experience Blog - The Windows Blog Yes. IE is the world’s most-used browser across all OS . For the time being at least :-) IE Rulez ok!